Provincial School of Fruit Growing and Viticulture at Slap near Vipava

The article presents the Provincial School of Fruit Growing and Viticulture at Slap near Vipava. To ensure its establishment in 1872, the Vipava landlord, Count Karl Lanthieri, offered it the castle at Slap with all the adjacent land to be used for thirty years free of charge. It was the first agricultural school in the province of Carniola that provided instruction on fruit growing and viticulture in the Slovenian language. Pupils came from all corners of the province. The school offered Sunday courses for farmers and from 1882 onwards also courses for teachers who then passed their knowledge on to pupils in the so-called Volksschulen (primary and lower secondary schools). In 1886, the school was moved to Grm in Lower Carniola.